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Photographer: Keir Morse
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Family Geraniaceae
Erodium cicutarium (L.) L'Hér. ex Aiton
red-stem filaree, red-stem stork's-bill, stork's-bill
Erodium: from the Greek erodios, "a heron," due to the long beak on the fruit that gives rise to some of its common names such as storksbill and cranesbill, a meaning reinforced by the family name Geranium, the derivation of which is geranos, "crane" .
cicutarium: like Cicuta
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| Status: | Introduced - naturalized |
| Plant: | spreading, annual/biennial, up to 16" tall forb branching after the first year; rank smelling |
| Flower: | pink, 5-parted, 1/3"-1/2" wide; inflorescence with 2-8 stalked flowers in a long-stalked, rounded, umbel-like cluster (cyme); blooms April-Sept. |
| Leaf: | mostly pinnately-divided, first year's leaves usually basal |
| Habitat: | disturbed areas |
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